tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5565900757646019972..comments2015-08-02T13:29:06.837-07:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Vallejo: DolorZephirinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18796791378258913382010-06-10T08:35:50.814-07:002010-06-10T08:35:50.814-07:00Gracias, Julia.
There is another Vallejo -- with ...Gracias, Julia.<br /><br />There is another Vallejo -- with some crazy twisted-fibre clouds -- <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/vallejo-vedic-fiber.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87644570479215478932010-06-10T07:39:01.548-07:002010-06-10T07:39:01.548-07:00I came here for the cloud, but ended listening to ...I came here for the cloud, but ended listening to Vallejo... That&#39;s great!<br />About the cloud, when I first saw your picture I thought it looked just like the ones we see in our Río de la la Plata when there is a storm called &quot;pampero&quot;. Then I found out that this cloud is from Uruguay, so it could be a typical &quot;cigarro&quot; cloud.Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16969265525467033032009-08-24T15:23:11.095-07:002009-08-24T15:23:11.095-07:00Tom,
First, thanks for translating this, not eas...Tom, <br /><br />First, thanks for translating this, not easy itself. I agree with everything you say about freedom being hard to win and certainly facing the truth of a hollow relationship that was never meant to be can be painful (&quot;Se acabo todo al fin/Finally everything was finished&quot;, but I was hearing some liberation from pain and a useless life also in that last stanza (&quot;Y se acabo el diminutivo...&quot;). Thanks again.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821312923311461854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65000678015082900402009-08-24T12:05:56.852-07:002009-08-24T12:05:56.852-07:00Peter,
If you&#39;ll look again at the comment fr...Peter,<br /><br />If you&#39;ll look again at the comment from Vallejo on this work, you&#39;ll see that he is saying freedom is not won at an easy price. &quot;I want to be free... But being free, at times, I feel surrounded by a dreadful ridicule...&quot;<br /><br />As the poet suggests, it is painful to recognize you&#39;ve thrown away soul and feeling on a hollow conventional relationship that was never meant to be. Sometimes the truth hurts. Saying so is merely being honest.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21192580175721155092009-08-24T10:10:03.817-07:002009-08-24T10:10:03.817-07:00&quot;The cold painful air of truth&quot;?The last...&quot;The cold painful air of truth&quot;?The last lines speak of being &quot;over and done with&quot; this &quot;endless dolor&quot; and this &quot;having been born for no cause&quot;. Freedom seems to include freedom from despair and nihilism, no?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821312923311461854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11791909597288504632009-08-23T22:23:19.559-07:002009-08-23T22:23:19.559-07:00As to the poem&#39;s ending, we&#39;re now privile...As to the poem&#39;s ending, we&#39;re now privileged by the bracing corrective view of esteemed poet correspondent and eternal Muse JK, who helpfully dispatches this from the Beyond:<br /><br />&quot;hasten to inform you that cause is unstoppable<br />and is actually eternal delight&quot;<br /><br />She has been promised that her word will be passed along to César Vallejo the next time I run into him.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81403415126253605652009-08-23T16:10:29.905-07:002009-08-23T16:10:29.905-07:00Yes, the great ending of this poem, a brilliant de...Yes, the great ending of this poem, a brilliant desolating yet liberating last minute escape from the suffocating hothouse world of romantic fallacy into the cold painful air of truth.<br /><br />About Trilce, Vallejo said: &quot;The book was born in a complete void. I am responsible for it. I assume all responsibilites for its esthetics. Today, more than ever, I feel a sacred obligation, until now unknown, weighing upon me; that of being free! If I am not free today, I will never be. I feel the arch of my forehead desiring its heroic imperative strength . . . God knows what horrifying borders I have approached, filled with fear, terrified that everything was going to die completely so that my poor soul would live . . . I want to be free . . . But being free, at times, I feel surrounded by a dreadful ridicule with the air of a child that carries a spoon in his nostrils . . .&quot;TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23238527910369167972009-08-23T14:33:43.372-07:002009-08-23T14:33:43.372-07:00loved the endingloved the ending~otto~http://www.blogger.com/profile/08859835662556335529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31877843383144079302009-08-23T12:33:24.376-07:002009-08-23T12:33:24.376-07:00aaagh!aaagh!phaneronoemikonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31231406436571702752009-08-23T06:50:07.091-07:002009-08-23T06:50:07.091-07:00And if it laid down a bunt--tsunami!And if it laid down a bunt--tsunami!TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38708079794697546692009-08-23T05:52:26.942-07:002009-08-23T05:52:26.942-07:00Now that&#39;s a Louisville Slugger of a cloud. It...Now that&#39;s a Louisville Slugger of a cloud. It&#39;d hit a knucklemoon out of the solar system!David Grovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88475167954112730602009-08-23T05:38:46.938-07:002009-08-23T05:38:46.938-07:00Click on the roll cloud to feel the fullness of th...Click on the roll cloud to feel the fullness of the dolor.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com